Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| "A LARGE numOer OF lives nave been los t
by the recent earthquakes in Turkstan.
WHILE body Of police were engaged
at Denbigh, Wales, on the II tn, selling
property for tithes, they were set upon
| by a mob, who let loose an excited bull
and pelted the police with rotten eggs.
THERE is great deal of quiet appre-
hension at the German capital and
throughout the Empire in regard to the
outcome OF the Crown Princes throat
trouble. His trip to London may be
| abandoned
| Observation-Disclosures PAsCoE OF the
International Typographical Union, has
| resigned, and it is rumored that he is
short in his accounts.
! SIXTY-FOUR cadets were graduated
| from the West Point Military Academy
on the 1lth. General Sherman was pres
ent and made an interesting address to
the graduates, and General Sheridan well
coined them to the army in speech in
which he reviewed his own career.
WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, DID,, LII
D., Bishop Of the diocese of Pennsylvania
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, died
at his residence in Philadelphia on the
11th, aged seventy-two years.
| ADvICEs from New Zealand report a
number of wrecks on that coast during a
great gale which prevailed during the
latter part of May. A great number of
| lives were lost.
BRIaADIER-GENERAL MERRITT assumes
| command Of the Department of the Mis-.
souri, July l. He will be su cceeded in the
| superintendency of West Point by Gen
| eral Parke.
| HAvEMEYER's sugar ref merry at Green
Point, L. l., was destroyed by fire on the
11th.
ADvICEs from Sidney, N. s. w., re.
ceived by the steamship Alameda at San
Francisco on the 11th, announced the
death of William E. Sheridan, the Ameri-
can tragedian.
| SUCCESSFUL experiments were made at
San Francisco in firing shells loaded
with dynamite from parrot guns. One
explosion made a hole in the ground
twelve feet wide by five deep.
WILLIAM H. MALoNEY, reading clerk for
the New York Board of Aldermen in 1884,
is said to have turned States evidence,
and some interesting testimony is expect
ed in the Jake Sharpe trial from that
source.
THOMAS B. MCMANUs, a New York real
estate dealer, is reported missing, and
foul play is suspected. He is said to have
had in his possession sixty or seventy
thousand dollars, besides his gold watc
and diamond pin.
| WARREN SHERMAN, aged fifty-tive years,
| inventor of the automatic railroad signal,
was run down and decapitated by train
| at Utica,N. Y, on the 18th. Conductor
Blackburn, who was examining the inven-
| tiOn at the time, was also run over and
| had his left leg cut off at the knee.
FoR Queen Victoria's jubilee garden
| party at Buckingham palace 6 500 invita-
| tions have been issued, and it is said IS, 900
| who have not been bidden to the fete are
| disappointed.
WASHINGTON is intensely worked up
over the Venezuelan telephone scandal.
M. CLEMENcEAU and M. Foucher, editor
| of the Nationat Paris, fought a bloodless
| duel on the 18th.
SPEAKER CARLISLE is going to Washing
| ton and will confer with other Democratic
| leaders on the tariff question.
| RUssIAs occupation of Kerki, on the
Oxus, is regarded by Afghanistan as a
declaration of war.
CHARLES BECKER, forger who is
| famous all over the world, is to be re-
leased this week from the New York
| penitentiary.
THE avdertsed meeting Of the evicted
| tenants at Bodyke, Ireland, on the 10th,
was forbidden, but the people got to-
gether at Feakle and Michael Davitt ad-
| dressed them.
In addition to the plan for changing one
or more of the present street railroads OF
Washington to cable roads next winter,
there are plans afloat for system Of ele-
waited roads to cover the entire city.
Mr.. PowDERLY spoke before a large
audience in Music Hall, Lynn, Mass, on
the 18th. Mayor Hart presided, and
speeches were made by General Secre-
tary Litchman, Knights Of Labor, and
others.
THE residence Of a farmer named
James Edwards, living in township
Menota, South Manitoba, was burned on
the night of the 1lth and three children,
aged seven, twelve and fourteen, perished
in the flames. Edwards and his wife
jumped from an upstairs window, TAX
ing two other children, or all would have
perished.
THE Mound City ar-stables atSt. Louis
were burned on the morning OF the 14th,
and with them $50 mules The Lafayette
Brewery stables were burned almost
simultaneously, and several valuable
horses were cremated.
Mr.. PowDERLY says he is not a candi-
date for the presidency Of the United
States.
JAMES THoRINGToN, ex-Congressman OF
Iowa, died at Santa Fe, N. NJ. on the
18th.
CANADIAN crops are reported in an ex-
cellent condition, and very promising.
A CONVENTION of river and lake trans
portation men began at Cincinnati on the
18th.
MRS HARRIET W. ALLYN, a Connecticut
millionalress has sued the town OF ORE
gon, H., for $40, 600 and interest.
PARIS papers ridcule the Cleme nceau-
Foucher duel, and insinuate that 1t was
prearranged that no one should be hurt.
PETER BETrERs, colored. was lynched at
Jamestown, O., on the 18Th, for brutal
assault on an aged colored lady.
ARGUMENT in the case OF the United
States VS.. the Bell Telephone Company
began at Boston on the 18th.
STANLEY expects to become one OF the
wealthiest men in the world In the next
few years of concessions secu ed in rich
portions of the Congo Free State.
VICE PRESIDENT TYRER of the Amer-
can Telephone Company, the central hg-